True. When we were stationed in SC a friend of ours was a black DI at Parris Island, he was a swim instructor/life guard. He said said they wanted black swim instructors to help blacks overcome fear and that blacks didn’t float like white folk. I had never known that.
Why don’t black Americans swim?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11172054
A month ago, six African-American teenagers drowned in a single incident in Louisiana, prompting soul-searching about why so many young black Americans can’t swim.